What’s this all about? you’re wondering. It’s an ambitious effort to gather together the efforts of groups of photographers to illustrate Wikipedia articles. It’s also a chance be a part of a unique effort, get to explore great historic and artistic collections, to win prizes, and to have a lot of fun along the way.

So what’ll it be, shutterbugs?

Egyptian sarcophagi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

A bark painting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales?

A John Singer Sargent portrait at The New York Historical Society?

With participating institutions all over the world, there are a million ways to get involved.

Here’s how to get started:

1. Check out the Wikipedia Loves Art Flickr group. Decide which institution you’d like to shoot for, and check out the rules and scavenger hunt lists they post–those will determine what you’ll be shooting, and what you can win.

PLEASE NOTE: Our own contribution to the contest invites photographs from all over the country to capture shots that celebrate the history of film exhibition, and would be good illustrations for Wikipedia articles about the history of film. So you need not be on a team or be in a city to win a prize from the Film Society of Lincoln Center. So please submit shots of iconic movie houses, surviving movie palaces, drive-in theaters, crumbling remnants, projection equipment and other aspects of movie house architecture.